Week In Photos: Jan. 28-Feb. 1, 2013

A protester peers over the balcony of her home during demonstrations against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in Port Said, Egypt.

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Burkina Faso’s Mohamed Koff juggles the ball during his team’s training in Nelspruit, South Africa, for their African Cup match Tuesday with Zambia.

AP

A riot policeman beats a protester rallying against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Reuters

Afghan policemen take a break after surviving an IED attack while on patrol with American troops in Kandahar.

Reuters

A couple sits on a bench amid floodwaters from the Brisbane River. Severe flooding in Australia’s northeast have killed at least three.

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A woman crosses a footbridge over a highway in Beijing on an evening when the Chinese capital’s air pollution reached levels almost 20 times the World Health Organization’s ‘safe’ limit.

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A man climbs up an artificially made wall of ice near the Swiss mountain resort of Pontresina.

Reuters

A child stands on one of the trusses of the Quezon Bridge in Manila, Philippines.

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The father of one of the 232 victims of the fire Sunday at Boate Kiss nightclub, cries during his daughter’s funeral in Santa Maria, Brazil.

Reuters

A surfer leaps from his board during a run on the Arnette Punta Galea Big Wave World Tour in Spain.

Reuters

Malian children peer into a car on the roadside in Konna. French-led troops were advancing on the fabled city of Timbuktu after a string of victories in their offensive against Islamist militant groups.

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People through a snow-covered park in Bucharest, Romania.

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A construction worker takes a break on a meshed platform outside a high-rise in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Construction in the island nation is picking up for the first time after civil war ended four years ago.

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A Chicago man ice fishes on the frozen waters of Lake Michigan in Belmont Harbor.

AP

Mourners comfort each other at a makeshift memorial outside the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil, where a fire killed over 230 over the weekend.

AP

Anfisa, a 8-year-old female chimpanzee, washes the window of her own enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

Reuters

A truck clears a path near construction stalled by Sandy in Long Branch, NJ. The Senate has finally approved a long-delayed $50.5 billion aid package for victims of the storm.

Reuters

Maitland, Florida, sixth graders watch as President Obama takes off from the south lawn of the White House aboard Marine One.

Looters scramble into a shop in Timbuktu, Mali, where hundreds began looting stores they claim belong to “Arabs” and “terrorists” linked to the radical Islamists who’ve occupied the town for nearly a year.

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A newly initiated Hindu monk peers from behind a tent during the Maha Kumbh festival — one of the world’s largest religious gatherings — in Allahabad, India.

AP

Ice sculptures stand on display near St. Basil’s cathedral, just outside the Kremlin in Moscow.

One of hundreds of anti-government protesters marching in the village of Sanabis, Bahrain, throws a molotov cocktail during clashes with riot cops.

Reuters

A damaged British Academy of Film and Television Arts award is placed in in a furnace to be recycled into new ones at a London foundry. The BAFTA Awards are scheduled for Feb. 10.

Reuters

A US Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team member patrols a patch of farmland near Command Outpost AJK in Kandahar.

Reuters

Ukrainian nationalists march through the streets of the western city of Lviv to mark the anniversary of a 1918 battle against the Red Army.

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A 3-month-old white tiger cub seems a bit put out by a zookeeper’s examination at the Serengeti wildlife park in Hodenhagen, Germany.

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School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi assemble to mark the anniversary of his death in Chennai, India.

Reuters

A South Korean rocket lifts off at the Naro Space Center in Goheung carrying a satellite into orbit from its own soil for the first time.

AP

Malian youths gang up on an alleged looter in the northern city of Gao.

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Drivers and scooter riders traverse a flooded road in Jakarta, Indonesia. The capital continues to be hit by floods — due to surging tides and bad drainage — that have shut down electricity and displaced thousands.

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Exiled Tibetans chant together at a rally for the Tibetan People’s Solidarity Campaign in New Delhi, India.

AP

Beyonce performs the National Anthem (for real this time) during a press conference promoting her appearance on the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show.

Reuters

A Palestinian boy mourns during the funeral of six members of a local Gaza City family who were killed in an accidental fire.

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A new bell — known as Gabriel — is hoisted from a flatbed truck in front of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Nine enormous bronze bells have made their way from a Normandy foundry to their new home.

AP

Riot police in Kashmir try calming demonstrators with hand gestures as protests raged against local authorities’ plans to raze illegally built homes in Sidhra.

Reuters

A Sotheby’s employee laughs at her reflection in “Untitled,” a work by Anish Kapoor, at the London auction house.

Reuters

Hindu holy men ritually bathe — an act believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God — in the Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India.

AP

The daughter of Eusebio Gonzalez — a policeman shot dead while trying to stop a group of assailants in increasingly violent Ecatepec, Mexico — cries during a tribute to her father.

Reuters

A Pakistani schoolgirl receives a polio vaccine from a health worker at school in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.